Sentences with phrase «back at some of the company»

Just looking back at some of the company's other flagship smartphones, none come to mind where the hardware was particularly poor.

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At the beginning of 2015, Orlando predicted there would be a «mid-stage capital crunch» that year, owing to the fact that it has historically been the most difficult stage of a young company's growth, and because U.S. investors that might otherwise back Canadian companies have their pick of opportunities at home these dayAt the beginning of 2015, Orlando predicted there would be a «mid-stage capital crunch» that year, owing to the fact that it has historically been the most difficult stage of a young company's growth, and because U.S. investors that might otherwise back Canadian companies have their pick of opportunities at home these dayat home these days.

At least 35 companies, among them Anheuser - Busch InBev, BP, and BASF, have been told to pay back taxes of about 700 million euros to Belgium because of their participation in an illegal tax scheme.

Business owners take care of their companies and get back to customers at the expense of their own daily rhythms.

White and partners bought back the company at a fraction of the investment cost, but had to scale back from 60 employees to 3.

And when you look at Twitter from that perspective, the value of the company shoots right back up.

Issuing bonds is one of the most routine things that happens in today's financial system; governments and companies get a sum of money today and pay interest on it over time, before paying back the principal at some agreed - upon future date, when the bond «matures.»

The police questioning of Cho Hyun - min, a former senior president at Korean Air, comes amid mounting pressure for elite families to scale back their influence over the companies founded by their relatives decades ago.

Back in the 1950s, GE - like many companies at the time — made explicit the primacy of workers over shareholders.

It was the biggest deal in the company's history, but last February it announced a $ 2.49 - billion writedown after finding out that the gold at Red Back's Tasiast mine was of a lower grade than previously thought.

Please take some time to go back to the checklist and ask yourself honestly — are you doing all of these things in order to develop leaders who are going to drive sales and revenue opportunities at your company in the future?

Big Bang means getting to an idea or start - up company at the beginning, exchanging industrial - design services for equity at the garage or even the back - of - the - envelope stage.

In addition to that, Macy's has been looking to reduce store clutter and re-establish itself as a tastemaker and has relaunched its loyalty program as part of its efforts to get back on track as detailed in this in - depth look at the company in the current issue of Fortune.

According to Gartner, most companies in this space plow an average of 20 % of their revenues back into R&D; Kinaxis's R&D spending stands at 17 %.

In December of that year the company said Wilson would step down as chairman and it also named a new CEO, hoping new faces at the top would help the company bounce back from the debacle.

Las Vegas has the honor of the highest percentage of venture - backed companies with at least one female founder: 26 percent.

• ProPetro Holding, a Midland, Texas - based oilfield services company backed by Energy Capital Partners, raised $ 350 million in an IPO by offering 25 million shares at $ 14 per share, below its expected range of $ 16 to $ 19.

In a study commissioned by leadership consultant Green Peak Partners, and conducted by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, researchers looked at 72 senior executives at public, venture - backed and private - equity sponsored companies and found that self - awareness was the biggest predictor of a CEO's overall success.

Tesla's sudden change in fortune stands in marked contrast to Fisker Automotive, a competing alternative car company now on the verge of bankruptcy and at the center of controversy over $ 192 million in federal funding that it's unlikely to pay back.

Back in November 2016, John Hudak, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said that if Sessions became attorney general, he would have the power to rescind the Department of Justice memos issued under the Obama administration that have allowed marijuana companies to exist without fear of DEA raids.

Her $ 33 million paycheck this year puts her ahead of tech CEOs like Microsoft's Satya Nadella ($ 18 million), who is successfully steering the company back towards growth, as well as leaders at fast - growing tech giants like Alphabet's Larry Page ($ 1), Apple's Tim Cook ($ 9 million) and Amazon's Jeff Bezos ($ 2 million).

Anne Sheehan, head of corporate governance at California State Teachers» Retirement System, which backs the additional climate reporting, said Exxon's letter suggests the voting is at least very close and may be going against the company.

Galaxy Resources has pushed back the first shipment at its Mt Cattlin lithium mine after several delays and cost overruns, with the company's directors volunteering to fund any cash shortfall out of their own pockets.

Given the low unemployment rate, anecdotal evidence from a variety of companies, and alternative measures such as the Atlanta Fed wage tracker showing stronger growth, wage growth may not be back at precrisis levels, but the trend over the past year shows wages are certainly headed in the right direction.

I was taken back to a memory of myself at 5 years old when I performed with my ballet company at The Cobo Hall Auditorium in Detroit.

''... I used to joke with my colleagues that Larry & Sergey go out on their yachts - tie them together, sit back on the same recliners you'll find on their jumbo jet, each on his own yacht / set of yachts, smoke cigars, and put up pictures of Googlers with little snippets like «was a GM at muti - national telecomm company, got a Harvard MBA and is now answering Orkut tickets.»

And what I've seen at Carnegie Mellon and the Tepper School of Business is that we have students that come back to get their MBAs knowing that they want to start a company.»

With a nearly 16 percent stake in Dell and ties going back three decades to the creation of the company out of his college dorm room, Michael Dell is seen as having much more at stake in the deal going through than Silver Lake, a financial investor that often walks away from deals.

«We decided to sell not the technology, but the benefits,» says Raviv, who started the company in 2008 with backing from a Philadelphia incubator while an undergraduate engineering student at University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in May.

Nutanix is one of the high - profile unicorns, or venture - backed tech companies valued at $ 1 billion or more, that have been waiting in the IPO pipeline.

It's the latest in a relentless parade of damaging news for the Silicon Valley upstart, which was valued last year at $ 9 billion, the most of any venture - backed company working in health care today.

Amazon offered to buy the company for $ 42 per share, which represented a 27 percent premium at the time of the announcement back in June.

As David Thomas, the senior director of industry research at BIO, explained to me a while back, one the law's major provisions ensured that «companies could go and talk to investors more than one time, and not in a very formal setting like it had been structured before.»

That investment decision, importantly, also seems to get the backing of Unilever's board of directors: «At the board level, at the senior management level, they are apparently 100 % behind this,» Polman tells me — a proposition tested as recently as February, when Kraft Heinz made an unsolicited offer for the companAt the board level, at the senior management level, they are apparently 100 % behind this,» Polman tells me — a proposition tested as recently as February, when Kraft Heinz made an unsolicited offer for the companat the senior management level, they are apparently 100 % behind this,» Polman tells me — a proposition tested as recently as February, when Kraft Heinz made an unsolicited offer for the company.

During his time at City Hall, where he sat back to back with the mayor, he says, they discussed the company for a total of perhaps one hour before Mike asked him to run it.

This is just a smattering of merchandise that companies including REI, L.L. Bean and the like have (perhaps grudgingly at times) taken back over the years.

Line remained at Dayton's until late 1993 and reports that in the early years of her company, nearly everything she made went back into her business.

The company at one time had bold ambitions of having 1 million customers by 2018, but began scaling back its plans at the end of 2015 as costs for funding that growth mounted and demand began to slow.

«It stands to reason the eight schools in the official Ivy League account for 10.7 percent of total capital raised and 7 percent of companies - talking undergrad numbers here - to get at least a first round of venture financing, as pedigree accounts for a lot when it comes to backing a first - time entrepreneur,» he wrote.

«There is such a robust entrepreneurial community and a real energy around starting companies at Wharton,» Klein says, who comes from a family of entrepreneurs dating back to his grandfather, who started a shoe company when he arrived in America after World War II.

Confused by Internet hype, confounded by fads, companies must put customers back at the center of their strategy, where their salespeople can serve them

(Now that the economy has slowed, some of the companies that initially scoffed at Quartet's small volume are calling Rourke back, saying, «We'll take that $ 1,000 a month.»

As for Schneiderman, at the end of the five - day period he will likely file a lawsuit against the two companies that would demand they be barred from doing business in New York, and would require them to pay state fines and potentially pay back restitutions to New York customers as well.

With Jobs back at the helm of his company, plenty of challenges lie ahead.

He had initiated discussions with investors in the same week he did back - t0 - back keynote speeches at two big tech conferences, in two different cities, one of them sponsored by his own company.

Meanwhile, the number of companies that bought back shares and did not pay a dividend reached 65 at the end of July, which was slightly above the average for both 2014 and 2015 (63 companies).

Wouldn't jumping back into the same role at a different company really just be more of the same?

At your company, make sure the security guards follow the rules to check everyone's badge — that includes big groups of people coming back into the office after lunch.

Without a company pension to fall back on, the manager of a specialty wood - products mill in Kamloops, B.C., has been putting at least $ 5,000 into his RRSP every year since the age of 23.

Long - term, a multi-day setback like a bad case of the flu or bad back pain likely won't affect your position at the company, especially if you've worked there for many years and it doesn't occur often.